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D.Minn.: Unrelated fraud investigation revealed computer generated bills, and that justified SW for computer stuff

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

It was reasonable to believe that there would be evidence of fraud on defendant’s computer for this search warrant. In an unrelated fraud investigation, computer generated false bills were found apparently coming from defendant. That was the link to the computer, hard drives, and thumb drive. In the officer’s experience [even in common experience], computers are used in committing alleged frauds like this one. United States v. Graziola, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42903 (D. Minn. April 13, 2010).* The officer had qualified immunity for the wrongful stop of the plaintiff for avoiding a stop sign by driving through private property. He called the State Patrol for confirmation, but they were wrong. Still, that says nothing about his use of excessive force on the plaintiff...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).